Bottle Kilns

A disappointing day.  After a visit to the reserve's cafe to use their WiFi, no reception at the caravan site, we headed for Stoke on Trent.  Our main aim was to visit a Pottery factory shop.  Sadly it only opens on Saturdays and Sundays.  We parked in a lay-by marked with the standard Blue P.   A "gentleman" claimed it was private property belonging to the factory.  So eventually after doing what we needed we moved off.

Then we headed for another attraction listed in the booklet we picked up at the reserve.  No sign of it at all anywhere.  So what next?  At Wedgewood World a lady advised us to visit the Gladstone Museum as it was very interesting.  So off we went.  After a snack in the cafe we went to pay to go into the museum.  This was around 2:00 o'clock.  The man at the desk said we close in 55 minutes despite the sign outside saying they closed at 5:00.  

So the blip is a shot of the bottle kilns attached to the museum.  Taken from the car park.  Bottle kilns were typical of the potteries in their hayday.  You have to wonder how many there were 50 are preserved around Stoke on Trent.